Hello my lovelies, I’m back! It’s been a couple of weeks since I posted a book review and I am sorry for that, but PhD requirements and both academic and work commitments crept up on me: something had to give!… Read More ›
nonfiction review
Dispatches from Planet 3: Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond, Marcia Bartusiak
“To the stars, Bowen. To the stars.” Ok, that isn’t a quote from Dispatches from Planet 3, it’s actually a quote from a film called Dragonheart (which is amazing and you should watch it), but I thought it suited the… Read More ›
The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age, David E. Sanger
Hello wonderful nerds, I have another nonfiction review for you! The Perfect Weapon was written by veteran New York Times security and technology reporter David E. Sanger. I’ve read a number of his articles over the years (NYT is one… Read More ›
The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time, David L. Ulin
I can honestly say that I truly savoured every word of The Lost Art of Reading. You see, I’m one of those twenty-something year olds that can usually be found bemoaning the sad lack of anything approaching literary interest (or… Read More ›
The Ape That Understood the Universe: How The Mind and Culture Evolve, Steve Stewart-Williams
Let me start by saying that this book was even further out of my average reading zone than I expected. Don’t get me wrong, I chose it specifically because it was out of the realm of what I would normally… Read More ›
Saga Land: The island of stories at the edge of the world, Richard Fidler and Kári Gíslason
I have a confession to make: I started this right after Christmas 2017 and only made it a few pages in before getting distracted and laying it aside. I read a few pages here and there over the next couple… Read More ›
The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files, by Marc Becker
Hello, my good dudes! I hope today finds you well, and I suspect today finds you happy indeed that it is (when this goes up) the weekend. Bless. Today’s review is (gasp!) a nonfiction read! I know, I know: what… Read More ›
The Secret World: A History of Intelligence, Christopher Andrew
Ok so, I was scrolling through Netgalley with keyword searches to see if anything was available that would be both fun for me to read, and actually relevant to what I do. Despite cyber being all the rage right now,… Read More ›
The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben
This was one of these books that I had been meaning to read for a really, really long time and just never seemed to get around to because there was always another book at hand. Then, of course, when I… Read More ›
Wild Embers, by Nikita Gill
Hey beautiful nerds!! I honestly do not read as much poetry as I used to. I’m not entirely sure why; maybe because with poetry I have a harder time conjuring up the world the way I do with full length… Read More ›
